These curated resource lists coincide with the order of the topic ideas listed in the NHD 2017 theme sample topics list. Links lead to additional curated sets of resources. Note: historic newspaper coverage is from 1789-1922.
Taking a Stand Against the British: The Reorganization of the Continental Army at Valley Forge
Roger Williams’ Stand Against Exile: The Establishment of Rhode Island
Thurgood Marshall: Taking a Stand in Court Against Segregation
The Power of Words: Thomas Paine’s Fight Against Tyranny
The War on Poverty: [Lyndon B.] Johnson Stands for “The Other America”
Taking a Stand in Art: [John Singleton] Copley’s Artistic Fight Against the British
- John Singleton Copley historic newspaper coverage
Horace Mann and the Fight for Quality Education
Protecting the Environment: The Establishment of the National Park Service
Protestants and the Fight for Temperance: The Founding of the American Temperance Society
William Jennings Bryan: Standing Against Evolution
Nat Turner: Taking a Stand Against Slavery
- The Confessions of Nat Turner (published 1832)
- Nat Turner’s Insurrection (delivered July 30, 1889 by Geo. H. Burks, attorney and councilor at law)
- Nat Turner historic newspaper coverage
- Primary Source Spotlight: Slavery (U.S.)
Standing for Separation of Church and School: Engel vs. Vitale
- Facts and Case Summary – Engel v. Vitale Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts
Muhammad Ali: Taking a Stand Against the Vietnam War
Andrew Jackson’s Stand Against the Bank
- The U.S. Bank and the Whigs America’s Library
- Second Bank of the United States resources
Betty Friedan: Taking a Stand For Women’s Rights
The Pullman Strike of 1894: Taking a Stand for the Workers
- Pullman Strike background information Encyclopedia of Chicago
- The Great Railroad Strike of 1894 personal narrative
- Pullman strike 1894 historical newspaper coverage
- Collection connections: the Pullman Strike
- “Report on the Chicago strike of June-July, 1894” by the United States Strike Commission 1894
- The insurrection of June and July 1894, growing out of the Pullman strike at Chicago, Ill. 1894
- The government in the Chicago strike of 1894 by Grover Cleveland 1913
- Pullman strike image set
- The town of Pullman, Illinois–the homes and wages of the Pullman operatives
- Pullman Industrial ComplexPullman Porters – Topics in Chronicling America
- Historic newspaper coverage: Pullman town
More resources
- NHD 2017 U.S. History Topic Ideas Part II
- NHD 2017 European History Topic Ideas Part I
- NHD 2017 European History Topic Ideas Part II
- NHD 2017: World History Topic Ideas
- NHD 2017: World History Topic Ideas Part II
- NHD 2017: Selecting a Topic for a History Project
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